NATIONAL CULTURE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTADOPTION
Kallol Bagchi, Paul Hart, and Mark F. Peterson
NationalCulture is likely to play a role in Information Technology (IT) adoption. Data from a large scale study of national culture are used to predict the adoptionof six information technologies -- PC, Telephone, Cell Phone, Fax, the Internet, andPager — over a ten year period in thirty one nations. The results show that even aftercontrolling for national economic and social differences, national cultural dimensionssignificantly predict most IT product adoptions.
